Egregious examples of overlooking women in physics for top honors are well-known: Chien-Shiung Wu's pioneering work on parity conservation violation, disregarded in the 1957 Nobel Prize award to Lee and Yang; Jocelyn Bell's crucial role in discovering pulsars, unrecognized in the 1974 Nobel to Hewish and Ryle. But for every such inequity at the highest levels, countless examples occur in less dramatic contexts. Substantial citation inequity toward women in phyiscs on a wide scale has been recently documented [1]}, while our field remains overwhelimingly male.
